26th August – To Infinity and Beyond

I feel bloody terrible for leaving my last Travel Diary entry this long! It’s been nearly two months since I first headed east to my favourite place in the world and my diary entries have been sporadic to say the least. However tonight after a pint of iced coffee and a bath I am ready to recount my last day. It’s heartbreaking to put this to bed as I have most definitely had the blues since I came back despite having a holiday already booked for 6 months time! There was such a huge build up to this, that I have felt so flat and seriously home-sick for all things American. Sad huh? 

My final full day I awoke in a Days Inn at Niagara Falls. It was an incredibly early start but we managed to squeeze in a Denny’s breakfast before meeting with the tour. I had the most delicious cinnamon pancakes with a.. you guessed it… iced coffee. The group was meeting 8ish as we had a busy morning before the very very long bus ride back to NYC. Our first stop was another national park, this one was Whirlpool State Park and it was rather impressive. When us Brits think of the US we think of places like NYC, LA, Orlando, but this trip really showed me another side to the states, the scenery is just breath taking. We then moved onto Old Fort Niagara which was interesting especially for me as it was completely different to any battlements i’ve seen before (aka ones in the UK). We ended up garnering the attention of the some strange performers which was a laugh. Finally we headed to the Falls.